In this edition of "On the Fly," theScore's NHL roundtable series, we discuss who should take home the major hardware at the NHL Awards in June.

*Please note: this is not an official ballot.

Calder Trophy - Auston Matthews

Craig Hagerman: This was far from a two- or even three-horse race, but in the end, your Calder Trophy winner is Auston Matthews.

Matthews set a plethora of Toronto Maple Leafs records including most goals and points by a rookie in a season. He was the only player to record at least a shot in every game this season, his 40 goals were the most by an American-born rookie in NHL history, and sorry, he was just that much better than Patrik Laine.

Related: Matthews becomes 4th-ever rookie to reach 40 goals before turning 20

The 19-year-old also tallied the most goals by a rookie since Alex Ovechkin scored 52 during the 2005-06 season, while his 69 points are the eighth-highest mark since 2000.

Factor in his play on the other side of the puck and what he was able to help the Maple Leafs achieve this season and there's no question he deserves the award. Still, huge props to what's easily the best rookie class the NHL has seen in some time.

Vezina Trophy - Sergei Bobrovsky

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Ian McLaren: For the second time, the Vezina Trophy will be awarded to Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The Russian goaltender ranked second in wins this season with 41, trailing both Braden Holtby and Cam Talbot by a single victory. But it's his save percentage - dividing the number of saves by the total number of shots on goal - that sets him apart from the field.

Among all goalies with at least 41 appearances, Bobrovsky ranks first with a save percentage of .931, with Holtby (.925) coming in second. In five-on-five play, Bobrovsky continued to hold an advantage over Holtby, with the former posting a save percentage of .939 and the latter coming in at .937.

The one extra win should not cancel out Bobrovsky's ability to more regularly stop the puck. That, after all, is the chief aim of goalies.

In an impressive year all around in Columbus, Bobrovsky was the backbone, and the best goalie league wide.

Jack Adams Trophy - John Tortorella

Cory Wilkins: After a disastrous and short-lived season with the Vancouver Canucks, and an even worse showing leading Team USA at the World Cup, veteran head coach John Tortorella was all but left for dead.

Pundits across the hockey landscape chose Tortorella as the first coach to be fired this season. The reasoning: His style had gone stale, and in a league moving more and more toward youth, communication is key, leaving little room for Tortorella's fiery demeanor.

But all he's done in his first full season as coach in Columbus (he coached 75 games with the team last year) is pull the team into hockey relevancy. The Blue Jackets spent nearly all of their first 15 years in the league's basement, but emerged as a contender this season, making a 32-point improvement on 2015-16 and finishing as just one of four teams to crack the 50-win plateau.

Tortorella tossed aside the meaningless morning skate. He unleashed his young players and worked through their growing pains as they learned from their mistakes. Through it all, Tortorella mellowed. For those reasons, coupled with the team's success, the Blue Jackets bench boss deserves to be this season's coach of the year.

Norris Trophy - Erik Karlsson

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Sean O'Leary: When Drew Doughty captured the Norris Trophy last season, nearly everybody outside the Kings organization was shocked, believing Erik Karlsson deserved it after the most prolific season of his NHL career (82 points).

Now, Doughty is an all-world talent - his ability to thrive at both ends of the ice won him the award, and voters said it was his time. Fast forward a season, and here we are debating whether it should be Brent Burns or Karlsson, both beyond worthy candidates.

Burns had more points, 76 to Karlsson's 71. But if offense didn't win Karlsson the Norris, why would it win Burns one?

Karlsson adapted to Guy Boucher's defensive regime, and thrived. Karlsson blocked more shots, logged more time on ice per game, and suppressed opponents' offense more effectively than Burns this season on a team that quietly registered 98 points.

Burns has undoubtedly become one of the game's most polarizing superstars both on and off the ice, but Karlsson is a true generational talent, and if I had a vote in this debate, it would go toward No. 65's third Norris Trophy.

Hart Trophy - Connor McDavid

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Navin Vaswani: It's got to be the kid. The Captain. The Edmonton OIlers. Connor McDavid.

He finished with 100 points, an Art Ross winner at 20, in his second NHL season at only 19.

Almost more impressively, Edmonton finished with 103 points. Remember, this is the Oilers. A team that hadn't hit 80 points since 2009, or 90 since 2006, in the Cup Final season. Not only are the Oilers back in the playoffs, they have home ice in the first round, hosting last year's Western Conference finalists. They had a chance to win the Pacific Division with only hours to play in the 82-game season. The math, it don't lie.

I could get into more of the numbers - the even-strength dominance, the percentage of the Oilers' offense McDavid accounted for - but if you watched him this season, you know why he's the MVP. You saw why.

That's taking nothing away from Sidney Crosby, who is dominant in a way no other player is, not even McDavid. But there's something about No. 97 - it may very well be his speed, and his ability to do things at speeds no one else can.

He stands out, stands apart, in a way no other player does.

So many of the league's top teams are loaded with talent. It's tough to argue the Oilers, though they finished tied for seventh in the NHL in points, are one of them. It's McDavid and the boys. McDavid's that good. He's the most valuable player, because the Oilers probably are not the Oilers without him.

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In Brian Elliott's eyes, the Anaheim Ducks didn't so much win Thursday night's game as the Calgary Flames lost it.

The Ducks edged the Flames 3-2 in Game 1 of the quarterfinal series, but Calgary's goaltender attributed Anaheim's victory to some costly mistakes by his own club.

"Two power-play goals and a bad change, it's not like they really earned it that much. We kind of gave it to them," Elliott said postgame, according to The Canadian Press. "We clean things up, we'll take care of business."

The highlight of the night was Rickard Rakell's second-period goal that came on a very rare three-on-zero break, just one of the mistakes Elliott alluded to.

"I have to watch it from a different angle because all I saw was just three guys coming," Elliott said. "Try to stand your ground but that can't happen this time of year."

It was still a one-goal game, and that's something Flames forward Kris Versteeg feels the team can take out of the loss.

"All in all, we were still there in the end," Versteeg said. "We had our opportunity to tie it up and we didn't. Let's move on to the next one."

Related - Watch: Gibson makes game-saving pad stop in final seconds

Game 2 in the series goes Saturday night.

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The Anaheim Ducks walked out with a 3-2 win on Thursday night and they have goaltender John Gibson to thank for that.

The club holds a 1-0 series lead, but that's due in part to the miraculous pad stop Gibson made on Calgary Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau with less than 20 seconds remaining in regulation.

For Gibson, Thursday's victory helps bring his career playoff record to a more reasonable 3-4-0 mark. He will hope to bring that line to .500 when the Ducks and Flames take the ice again on Saturday night.

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The first two days of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs are in the books, and they haven't quite gone the way Canadian-based clubs hoped.

A year after not a single team from the Great White North participated in the postseason, five punched their ticket this spring, but all five are still looking for their first win after Thursday's action.

Excepting the Montreal Canadiens' loss to the New York Rangers, each of the contests has been decided by a single goal, including the Toronto Maple Leafs' and Edmonton Oilers' overtime losses. In total, Canadian teams have been outscored 13-7.

It's been a while since fans of a Canadian-based team have celebrated a playoff victory. The last postseason win by a Canadian club came on May 9, 2015, when Montreal defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 of their second-round series.

The win kept the Canadiens' playoff hopes alive for just three days: They dropped Game 6 by a 4-1 score and were eliminated.

The Canadiens and Oilers are back in action Friday night as the question remains: Who will give Canada the country's first playoff victory in nearly two years?

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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Jakob Silfverberg scored the tiebreaking power-play goal late in the second period, and captain Ryan Getzlaf had a goal and an assist in the Anaheim Ducks' 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames in their first-round playoff series opener Thursday night.

Rickard Rakell scored the tying goal after Calgary made a horrendous line change in the second period, and John Gibson made 30 saves as the Ducks avoided a slow start to their latest Stanley Cup playoff campaign.

Sean Monahan and Sam Bennett scored and Brian Elliott stopped 38 shots for the wild-card Flames. Calgary is winless in Anaheim since April 25, 2006, when the Flames won a playoff game in a series won by the Ducks.

Game 2 is Saturday night at Honda Center.

With their fans' chants of ''You can't win here!'' echoing down from the rafters, the Ducks kept up their improbable home mastery of the Flames despite falling behind in the second period.

Getzlaf was dominant while he became the first Ducks player to score 100 playoff points. He capped his night with an enormous third-period check on Calgary captain Mark Giordano, who is reviled in Anaheim after injuring All-Star defenseman Cam Fowler with a knee-on-knee hit last week.

Anaheim capped the win by killing two Flames power plays, including a 5-on-3 disadvantage for 1:17 in the waning minutes. Gibson was shaky at times, but he denied Johnny Gaudreau in the crease with 18 seconds to play.

With Calgary's loss, the NHL's Canadian teams fell to 0-5 in their playoff openers this season.

The Ducks have won five straight Pacific Division titles, but their postseason failures in recent years led to coach Bruce Boudreau's firing last spring and the return of Randy Carlyle, who led Anaheim to its only championship a decade ago. The Ducks haven't reached the Stanley Cup Final since, and they've won just three playoff rounds during the past four seasons - including an embarrassing first-round loss to Nashville last season.

The Ducks lost the first two games at home to the Predators, who eventually won in seven games. A slow start wasn't a problem against the Flames, however: The raucous Orange County crowd hadn't even settled in its seats before Getzlaf wired a one-timer through traffic for his 30th career playoff goal.

Calgary evened it on a power-play redirect by Monahan, the top-line forward who scored 58 points and didn't miss a game during the regular season.

Bennett put the Flames ahead with a slick shot off Kris Versteeg's slick backhand pass in front. Before Honda Center or the Ducks could get too tense, Rakell evened it on a rebound of Getzlaf's shot after Calgary gave up a 3-on-0 rush with its confused line change.

Silfverberg then put a beautiful wrist shot through traffic to reclaim the lead.

The Ducks expect to be without Fowler for at least the next few games after the hit by Giordano, who wasn't penalized or further disciplined by the NHL. Giordano was booed every time he touched the puck.

NOTES: Ducks D Shea Theodore got the first two playoff points of his career with power-play assists. ... Calgary's Glen Gulutzan coached his first NHL playoff game, and rookie F Matthew Tkachuk made his playoff debut. ... Anaheim D Brandon Montour and F Ondrej Kase made their Stanley Cup playoff debuts. ... Ducks F Nick Ritchie completed his two-game suspension for punching Chicago's Michael Rozsival last week. The power forward will be eligible to make his NHL playoff debut in Game 2.

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Corey Perry survived a bit of a scare Thursday night.

The Anaheim Ducks forward caught a broken stick blade in the face on a draw in the second period of Game 1 against the Calgary Flames.

Perry went down the tunnel, but wasn't gone for long.

We can almost feel the hockey player cliches being concocted, but in all seriousness, Perry is fortunate he wasn't in worse shape.

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The Calgary Flames seem to be in a giving mood in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.

The Flames helped the Ducks score a goal for the second time Thursday night, going for a wholesale line change that Anaheim alertly spotted and took immediate advantage of.

Kevin Bieksa fired a long stretch pass from behind his own red line to Ryan Getzlaf in the offensive zone, and Jakob Silfverberg banged in the rebound after the captain's initial shot was stopped, knotting the game late in the second period.

Earlier in the game, Getzlaf scored a power-play goal that deflected in off Flames pugilist Deryk Engelland's stick.

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Dylan Wells is used to stopping the puck, but he can also bury it.

The Edmonton Oilers goaltending prospect pulled off an impressive feat in the Peterborough Petes' series-clinching win over the Kingston Frontenacs in the OHL playoffs Thursday night, firing the puck into the empty net from behind his own in the final minute.

He handled the celebration like a seasoned vet, too.

Wells made 33 saves to go along with his goal. The 19-year-old was a fifth-round pick of the Oilers in last year's draft.

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